southsideirish71

Wait till he gets rewarded by umpiring playoff games.

Its a curveball.

When you field a ball in the infield you don't want to catch it in the webbing unless its a liner or a popout. You want it in the pocket and get it into the hand as quickly as possible. He made a nice play on the first part of it however it was in the webbing and he couldn't fish it out. That happens and it's unfortunate.

You should read "The secret life of Walter Mitty"

Here is what people need to understand. In this phase of the rebuild, the team is going to be populated with the following. 1.) Prospects who have been promoted to the MLB team. They are developing and taking their lumps up here. They will look like Allstars one day, and like shit the next. If you plan on living game to game with these kids you are going to die of a coronary before the season is over. Relax. 2.) Fringe guys who were acquired via trade or waivers. These are lottery tickets. They may work out, they might be bench players on a future team, they might be nothing. They cost nothing and they are currently blocking no one so why fret over this. The minute one of these guys is blocking Eloy or Kopech wake me. Otherwise they are filler. 3.) Role Guys, same as above. Some of them are older. Everyone wants to trade all of them because of some value that maybe we only have. 4.) Abreu Relax and stop living day to day with this team. It's a big picture time. Some of these guys will work out. Some of them won't. The point of a rebuild is to get as many of these type of top end prospects to have a higher probability that multiple guys hit at the same time. I for one am up for the long term plan because watching the old around 500 team with the hopes of catching lightning in a bottle hasnt worked forever. Lets see what happens with this.

You worry about odd stuff.

I figured he wanted to keep warm. In college, after I pitched I would wear a windbreaker up until I could do a controlled icing of the arm later for my post game recovery with the trainer..

Why does it matter?

He was attacking Madrigal purely based on height. I didn't say that either of them is a comp to Madrigal.

He looks like a catcher?

Jose Altuve and Dustin Pedroia would like to have a word with you.

Now you are being revisionist. People didn't doubt his stuff. The only one who doubted his stuff was Law. The real question was could his arm slot, mechanics, and could his slight build handle the rigors of being in a rotation long term. So far he has been a horse.

Taking articles, parsing them and coming up with the most negative outcome based on what you see is not a most likely outcome. Read up on what they said about Chris Sale when he was drafted also known as the closer we drafted.

We have had noodle arms like Pods on this team playing an Of position. So stop with the absolutes based on 2nd and 3rd hand knowledge that based on articles you read.

Explain your definition of overthrowing. Most guys who throw near 100 have command issues. If he was commanding his pitches he would be up here dominating.

Based on what. Conjecture?

You should like Shields. Instead of keeping that pesky prospect they went for it and picked up a vet who knows how to win. How great does that look now.

You obviously didn't pay a lot of attention to the Cubs and to the Astros when they rebuilt.

This is exactly what I expected for the early parts of the rebuild. A small wave of talent arrived last year. That doesn't change that this is a bad team. This team needs to develop what they have and keep sending waves and waves of talent over the next few years. Some of it will stick, some of it will surprise and some of it will disappoint. Thats why its about numbers. The next CBA should address minor leaguers getting paid in slave wages. Not bad teams.

I watched the game. He did watch the homer a bit and then pointed to the sky after the got to home plate. I am okay with that, and I am okay with Contreras watching his. Just like I am okay with guys celebrating good plays, pitchers celebrating striking out a hitter to end an inning or game. Its a game played by human beings and human beings have emotions. People get butt hurt when its the other team doing it to them.

So did you think Tim Anderson should be beaned when he watched his homer in KC. I bet you thought that the catcher was a bad guy for going after Tim after he stared at this shot.

Giving the job to Southpaw might be a better plan.

His defense needs a lot of work. If he isn't working very hard every single day on his defense then he is wasting an opportunity. He messes up simple two handed plays to many times. He backhands when he shouldn't, he never gets his footwork correct.

After watching the Royals for years plunk our players and act like jackasses that's pretty rich getting all butt hurt over Tim pointing to the sky after a homer. Get freaking real. Swear filter needs to be reapplied after the upgrade

So the Mariners gift you by not taking out the lead runner and you gift them back by randomly taking off because the trailer gets occupied. Thats something you see in youth baseball not something you should see in the pro's.